Year: 2018

Walking with God

Can we analyse the Bible?

deaconbobstoner

I was taken by one data scientist who wanted to textually analyse the New Testament using software. What could they reveal from merely using some statistics to count the frequency of the words used in each book? Surely they would need to know more about the authorship as we, or rather scholars, have discerned?

We are informed that a number of the New Testament books may have been written pseudographically, written in the name of one by another. This was … Read the remainder

Walking with God

TDOR2018

deaconbobstoner

It has been a week or so since the Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR). It was a surreal moment – not really because it was bizarre but due to the beauty and serenity of the service.

We drew the words used for the service from Susan Gilchrist’s wonderful post on the Corrymeela website . We used the 2017 version but we adapted it to help with the expected congregation. We had spoken with some people from the LGBTQIA community: some … Read the remainder

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